Sean Thomas Dougherty
@seanthomasd.bsky.social
Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.
I SO love this poem by Theodora Ziolkowski in the latest Josephine Quarterly.
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Theodora Ziolkowski — Josephine Quarterly
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November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I SO love this poem by Theodora Ziolkowski in the latest Josephine Quarterly.
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“You must start with something small and easier to manage, like melancholy.”
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What is the Recipe for Joy?
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November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“You must start with something small and easier to manage, like melancholy.”
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
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“a pair of my daughter’s jeans (washed and washed again, packed away for Goodwill), / I found old gum deep in the pocket and a tiny note folded so hard, the blue ink barely blurred: // I’m friends with mean girls and I feel like I’m drowning” —Jennifer Martelli, “Stone-colored Birds”
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“a pair of my daughter’s jeans (washed and washed again, packed away for Goodwill), / I found old gum deep in the pocket and a tiny note folded so hard, the blue ink barely blurred: // I’m friends with mean girls and I feel like I’m drowning” —Jennifer Martelli, “Stone-colored Birds”
Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025
Prose poems for y'all.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"I am not a poker player, but I recently came across An Introduction to Poker in a second-hand bookshop, and it seemed the sort of book which might be useful to a poet."
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Ticket to the River: the autobiographical ‘I’ in poetry | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland - Connecting poetry and people
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November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"I am not a poker player, but I recently came across An Introduction to Poker in a second-hand bookshop, and it seemed the sort of book which might be useful to a poet."
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"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise."
A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise."
A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
"I first consider a question or a poetic problem, I think in metaphor almost before I register what the thing is. It’s the reason you end up writing poetry. Looking at a vase you’re like, “Oh too late!” The metaphor is immediately what you see. And that’s just always been the way that my mind work"
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"I first consider a question or a poetic problem, I think in metaphor almost before I register what the thing is. It’s the reason you end up writing poetry. Looking at a vase you’re like, “Oh too late!” The metaphor is immediately what you see. And that’s just always been the way that my mind work"
I wonder if this is why I write and am drawn to long poems:
"I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however ... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human."
Mark Rothko
"I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however ... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human."
Mark Rothko
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I wonder if this is why I write and am drawn to long poems:
"I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however ... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human."
Mark Rothko
"I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however ... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human."
Mark Rothko
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The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure
The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
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October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure
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Reposted by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Time for some Friday afternoon backyard reading!
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Time for some Friday afternoon backyard reading!
How could I not love a poem about the dead by Michael Bazzett?
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The Dead - Tahoma Literary Review
become very skinny over time.They can sleep between two coinsstacked neatly on a dresser.The little blade of light slicing underneath the door at nightis
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October 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
How could I not love a poem about the dead by Michael Bazzett?
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tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...
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The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
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"How many grams does it take to sing the blues? How many grams does it take to shine?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"How many grams does it take to sing the blues? How many grams does it take to shine?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
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Thinking about the resurgence of Nationalism and flag waving I am reminded of this poem by Ada Limón 'A New National Anthem'
‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#LoveKnowsNoBorders
#PeopleNotFlags
‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#LoveKnowsNoBorders
#PeopleNotFlags
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Thinking about the resurgence of Nationalism and flag waving I am reminded of this poem by Ada Limón 'A New National Anthem'
‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#LoveKnowsNoBorders
#PeopleNotFlags
‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#LoveKnowsNoBorders
#PeopleNotFlags
"The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage. "
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage. "
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage. "
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage. "
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
My favorite singer in the world @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social drops a political masterpiece just when we needed it most.
"Oh, to be wild like the roses
Oh, to be red with delight
My blood is red out of fury
The wind doesn’t blow this far right"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-pNGPuo8
"Oh, to be wild like the roses
Oh, to be red with delight
My blood is red out of fury
The wind doesn’t blow this far right"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-pNGPuo8
Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right
YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill
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October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My favorite singer in the world @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social drops a political masterpiece just when we needed it most.
"Oh, to be wild like the roses
Oh, to be red with delight
My blood is red out of fury
The wind doesn’t blow this far right"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-pNGPuo8
"Oh, to be wild like the roses
Oh, to be red with delight
My blood is red out of fury
The wind doesn’t blow this far right"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-pNGPuo8
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New story, "Becoming a Member," up @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her crew for giving it a home, and to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for looking at an early draft.
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Becoming a Member | South 85 Journal
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October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New story, "Becoming a Member," up @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her crew for giving it a home, and to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for looking at an early draft.
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Oh hell yes. The new issue of Bending Genre just dropped with fab work by my friends in words Francine Witte, Jill Crammond, Carolee Bennet, and many more writers! All free and online.
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Current Issue
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October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Oh hell yes. The new issue of Bending Genre just dropped with fab work by my friends in words Francine Witte, Jill Crammond, Carolee Bennet, and many more writers! All free and online.
bendinggenres.com
bendinggenres.com